Voki is an application that allows users to create
animated avatars and then to create audio to accompany
speaking avatars (see the examples) QR Codes are not for ALL students because not all students
have a cell, but they are a great tool for not only teachers, but
for schools. Send home QR codes that have link to the school
calendar/website, fund raisers or weekly schedules. Google Earth is probably one of my favorite apps because
Google is dedicated to making it work in education. They are constantly uploading instructional material. Furthermore, it has applications across the content areas. Common Craft provides videos on all emerging technologies to give you a short, informative explanation of what the technology does. See Wikis in Plain English or Zombies in Plain English on YouTube.
PowerPoint Museum Template is a "cool" PPt template that...looks like a museum. Again, it is cross-curricular and student- or teacher-centered.
http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/zone.htm This website allows you to become a graphic artist, but also provides information that correllates with my curriculum such as the processes and elements. http://www.classdojo.com/ I am hoping that this is the answer to my classroom management issues. I plan to use this next year to track the positive reinforcers earned by my students and increase behavior accountability for reportcards. http://explore-mandala.rma2.org/ When I am running behind on my pacing guide (ie: all year,) I can use this website as a quick interactive lesson to teach radial balance in one class period instead of a hands-on activity that takes 5 weeks. http://www.wholebrainteaching.com/ This is another website that I am hoping will improve my classroom management. http://www.theartofed.com/tag/elements-of-art/ This website has a lot of Art lesson plans as well as some useful assessment tools. WHICH I AM IN NEED OF!
1. This website is an easy website to create and print flashcards for your students. You can create any flash cards based on numerous operations. I feel that this website would be a great resource to differentiate your instruction. For example, if you have a student that is struggling with their multiplication facts of threes, you could print off flashcards for that particular set only. By doing this you can easily differentiate your instruction as well as give students a "go to" task for when their work is complete. 2. The above website is a very student friendly website. This website is made to create literature graphic organizers. Students who need individualized instruction could easily use this program instead of being assigned a writing task. Each graphic organizer prompts students with questions about what should go in the organizer. This would also make this website a great way to model certain organizers to students. Overall this is an easy and student friendly website for literature classes.
3. The above website is a great resource for math teachers. The website holds numerous math tools that can be used visually on a projector or SMART board. For example, this website has virtual dice as well as virtual calculators. These tools can be a great way to model activities to students. They would also be of great use for a SMART activity. Among the numerous tools on this website there are timers, printables and interactive games. All of these tools can be used during instructional time as modeling, time management and extensions.
4. The above website can be used cross curriculum. The basis of this website is to create an interactive cartoon world where students can use their creativity to create comic strips. An example of how this can be used for instruction could be as a use for vocabulary; students can create a comic strip to help others remember a difficult word. This could also be used to create comic strips in which characters act out literary elements. The comic strips could also be used by students to simulate science experiments. Again, this would be a great enrichment idea for gifted students. These are just a few ideas of how this website could be used for instruction.
5. The final website above is a great tool for math teachers. This website holds virtual manipulatives that can be used for whole class instruction or with struggling students. One example of the tools you can find on this website are the counters. These counters can be used as a visual for math operations as well as place value. A number line is also available on this website which can be beneficial to struggling students. These are just a few examples of the tools that you can find on the above website. Enjoy!
1. This free site provides a writing pad for groups of people so that they can communicate simultaneously on a topic of interest. This allows people to communicate and collaborate on various tasks, i.e. projects, meeting notes/ideas, planning for school events, brainstorming ideas, etc. Each person has a highlighter color which provides a clear visual of who is writing. Each group member can easily follow who is voicing an idea. All content is instantly updated and every change is saved on the web so that all members can access past ideas/content.
2. This site allows users to create and publish storybooks. It is free. Registration is required. There are different templates provided, e.g. build a book from scratch, treasure map builder, ocean tale page (story starter), and costume page as well as other theme and story starter pages. I particularly liked the costume page in that students can upload photos to dress up themselves, family or friends. All kindergarteners love playing dress up and this would allow them to print out a fun picture or send a picture to their family via email.
This is a great site for helping spark student creativity and imagination. Work can be saved and sent to family for viewing via email or by posting on a personal webpage. Families can also purchase a hardcopy of their child’s creation. The site is easy to use with a click and drag feature for story props, scenes, photos and text boxes. You can also edit the pictures/text of some previously published works by clicking the “personalize” button. For younger students who are unable to type or write text, a parent or volunteer can assist them by typing as they orally tell their stories. Teachers can use this as a whole class shared writing experience as well. Having access to an interactive whiteboard would be optimal so that all students can view and interact with creating the story.
3. This free site allows users to study vocabulary from a wide variety of subject areas and literature. No registration is required when using the site as a study tool. However, you must create an account in order to make your own set of vocabulary cards. Cards can be created for specific themes, subjects or literature. There are several features for students to study, play games, and test themselves on this site. It provides immediate feedback on number answered correctly and the amount of time it took to complete the task. There is a language selection feature, enabling ESL students to study in their native language. You can also search for and upload pictures to be embedded in your definition of terms, which is also helpful for ESL learners. You can upgrade to Quizlet Plus for a yearly fee of $15.00.
4. This free educational website provides games and short video clips for kids ages 6-10, good for both auditory and visual learners. For instance one game, Musical Bamboos, produces musical tones and lights up different colored bamboo arranged from high pitch to low pitch on the musical scale. Then learners must click on the bamboo in the correct sequence that it was played. Color coded icons for each game indicate levels of development in the areas of motor skills, intellectual agility, and literacy. Many hand/eye coordination games help develop mouse control skills and provide a visual counter so learners can count as they catch objects, which in turn increases their counting and number recognition skills as well. A search engine enables parents or educators to locate an activity that will develop a specific skill. You can access the games without opening an account. However, opening an account is encouraged in that it offers other features such as joining the Up to Ten Club.
5. This free educational website gives kids access to games across many content areas. The graphics are appealing to young children, very bold bright colors. There are also short video clips to teach science concepts. Students can create their own habitat scenes by clicking and dragging animals into a habitat picture. Paint and make pages offer another way for learners to create their own pictures/scenes. There are some pop-ups on this page that lead learners to other sites, so educators may need to monitor students using this site as a learning center to make sure that they remain on the site, using the games that they have been assigned for skill practice or given permission to explore for fun.
This website allows you to create games, quizzes, graphic organizers and tools that are engaging and more interactive for students in seconds. My favorite is the Fishbone diagram. It allows you put a key idea in the middle and examples on the bones that lead to the factors
Kahn Academy has mathematical lesson that are drawn out either on a white board imitation or paper and pencil. It also has verbal explanation from Kahn. This website allows you to step back and let the students learn from someone else! It also allows students to pause a lesson, rewind, fast forward, etc.
For the Vocabulary Word Work graphic organizer you can make flashcards for vocabulary words. This graphic organizer allows you to define the word, use the word in a sentence, provide an antonym, synonym, and topics that you think of when you hear this word. It also allows the students to print their work.
This site allows students to practice their skills in whatever subject or topic. It times the students per question. It will provide explanation for any incorrect answer. Students may choose from a wide variety of topics.
Capzels is a free website that allows students to create a "time capsule." They can narrate or add music to their project, import pictures they have taken or from the internet.
Edmodo is a class management and social networking site for teachers and students.
English-Zone provides practice activities for students. This site has free activities, as well as those teachers register for.
Tagxedo is a free website where students and teacher can create word clouds to demonstrate their knowledge on a subject
Discovery Education is a site that teachers normally have to register for, however this link provides free puzzle makers to all teachers.
*This site is full of math blackline masters. For number tables, fraction strips, decimal squares, graph paper, etc.
*This website allows you to purchase materials (also free materials) for a reasonable cost to download and print to use in your classroom. It allows you to search by grade level and/or content.
*The teachers that I work with use this website to share files. It is FANTASTIC for keeping tabs on students or sharing lessons with ease.
_*This site features “Around the World” crafts for kids. My middle school students made catapults using rubberbands and popsicle sticks. I gave this site to my parents and told them that it would be great for planning some rainy day activities for their kiddo’s.
This website allows students to create and illustrate their own stories online. Stories can be published and printed as books.
This site is a very neat way to work with students in a variety of ways using games and engaging activities. It is a more modern site that uses flash, so it does require a plug-in, but overall it seems easy to use and has a plethora of activities already created for various subjects on all levels. It has an image map activity, riddles, fill-in-the-blank, crosswords, dictation, dialogue, jumbled words, jumbled sentences, matching, and word searches. The site also offers collections on a specific subject, so you could group several activities in one place that were made for the same unit/topic. It makes quizzes, too! Definitely worth checking out. It is free- all you have to do is register.
This is AWESOME! These are fake Facebook pages that are developed by teachers and students for historical figures, characters, plays, etc. You can create their friends list, make comments as their friends and from them, edit their profile info, etc. It seems to be mostly historical and literary based, but I can see how science teachers and math teachers could teach relationships between different things using this particular tool.
This site lets you easily, without requiring registration, annotate any webpage with virtual post-it notes or a highlighter. You’re then given the url address of the annotated webpage. It’s quite easy to use. Students can use it to demonstrate reading strategies (visualizing, asking questions, making a connection, etc.).
This site allows students to make their own comic strips- or storyboard digitally- which I have found to be a very helpful tool for comprehension. The site offers multiple backgrounds and characters to use- and requires no registration or additional information. Very cool tool :)
This site allows teachers to hold "chat-rooms" within a private setting for free! The teacher can set the expiration date for the chat room, invite members by url, and hashtag to twitter. It is super easy to use, requires no registration, and you have full control over the content. It is a cool tool to use during movies, podcasts, or other visual/auditory content to let students ask questions and have discussion about the content without being disruptive.
The Wolframaplha website is a search engine that also computes. It is an extremely useful one stop site for all content areas, not just math. For example, when searching for Denmark, the location of the novel Number the Stars I could find virtually every fact about Denmark I wanted to find, all in one quick search.
This website hosts Rubistar, a free rubric maker. I often use Rubistar to create quick and effective writing rubrics. While exploring Rubistar I realized it was sponsored by the larger site 4teachers.org. This site hosts several other teacher time savers. Besides rubrics, it also makes available a note taking tool: http://notestar.4teachers.org/. This site allows students to track sources they are using for research papers and lets teachers log on and collaborate along with students. This tool would allow teachers to see if the sites their students are using are valid and reliable and would teach good research skills.
http://www.educationworld.com/
This website is an amazing tool for free printables, lesson plans, and lesson ideas. I like to use the Every Day Edit, which will give a short paragraph with grammar errors for every day of the month. There are also good vocabulary handouts and writing prompts. There are free resources for every content area.
This website is a dictionary, but with a twist. It has video & word definitions. It would be especially helpful when trying to show students examples of how words are used and what they mean. Since new words can be abstract, this site would provide visual examples to see what a word means/is defined as. The only downside, not every word you want can be found here, but most common words for lower level students/elementary grades would be here.
This website is useful for showing students websites. It lets you paste a chunk of text and the URL of the page containing the text and get a link that opens directly to the website and highlights the selection you pasted. It would be extremely useful for demonstration purposes of when directing students to explore complicated websites with many links. I could see using it to share websites on a wiki or blog and this way my students would know what they are supposed to be looking at.
Website
Web 2.0
Description
http://www.voki.com/
Examples: http://highlandtechnologyclass.wikispaces.com/Voki+-+Monologues
QR Generators
http://qrcode.kaywa.com/
Example:
QR Codes in the Classroom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocn-LT4r4_o&feature=related
Stimulating Oral Storytelling (Elementary) With QR Codes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9SwTiNx_Ps&feature=related
Google Earth in the Classroom
http://sitescontent.google.com/google-earth-for-educators/
Example:
http://realworldmath.org/Real_World_Math/RealWorldMath.org.html
Common Craft
http://www.commoncraft.com/#all-videos
Examples: Plagiarism in Plain English
PowerPoint Museum Template
http://christykeeler.com/EducationalVirtualMuseums.html
Examples:
The Iroquois by Ryan Keeler, 5th grade student
animated avatars and then to create audio to accompany
speaking avatars (see the examples)
QR Codes are not for ALL students because not all students
have a cell, but they are a great tool for not only teachers, but
for schools. Send home QR codes that have link to the school
calendar/website, fund raisers or weekly schedules.
Google Earth is probably one of my favorite apps because
Google is dedicated to making it work in education. They are constantly uploading instructional material. Furthermore, it has applications across the content areas.
Common Craft provides videos on all emerging technologies to give you a short, informative explanation of what the technology does. See Wikis in Plain English or Zombies in Plain English on YouTube.
PowerPoint Museum Template is a "cool" PPt template that...looks like a museum. Again, it is cross-curricular and student- or teacher-centered.
Bethany Whelan
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/lit-elements/index.html
http://mathskit.net/
http://www.bitstripsforschools.com/
http://macmillanmh.com
/math/mathtoolchest/mtc_online/
http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/zone.htm This website allows you to become a graphic artist, but also provides information that correllates with my curriculum such as the processes and elements.
http://www.classdojo.com/ I am hoping that this is the answer to my classroom management issues. I plan to use this next year to track the positive reinforcers earned by my students and increase behavior accountability for reportcards.
http://explore-mandala.rma2.org/ When I am running behind on my pacing guide (ie: all year,) I can use this website as a quick interactive lesson to teach radial balance in one class period instead of a hands-on activity that takes 5 weeks.
http://www.wholebrainteaching.com/ This is another website that I am hoping will improve my classroom management.
http://www.theartofed.com/tag/elements-of-art/ This website has a lot of Art lesson plans as well as some useful assessment tools. WHICH I AM IN NEED OF!
2. The above website is a very student friendly website. This website is made to create literature graphic organizers. Students who need individualized instruction could easily use this program instead of being assigned a writing task. Each graphic organizer prompts students with questions about what should go in the organizer. This would also make this website a great way to model certain organizers to students. Overall this is an easy and student friendly website for literature classes.
3. The above website is a great resource for math teachers. The website holds numerous math tools that can be used visually on a projector or SMART board. For example, this website has virtual dice as well as virtual calculators. These tools can be a great way to model activities to students. They would also be of great use for a SMART activity. Among the numerous tools on this website there are timers, printables and interactive games. All of these tools can be used during instructional time as modeling, time management and extensions.
4. The above website can be used cross curriculum. The basis of this website is to create an interactive cartoon world where students can use their creativity to create comic strips. An example of how this can be used for instruction could be as a use for vocabulary; students can create a comic strip to help others remember a difficult word. This could also be used to create comic strips in which characters act out literary elements. The comic strips could also be used by students to simulate science experiments. Again, this would be a great enrichment idea for gifted students. These are just a few ideas of how this website could be used for instruction.
5. The final website above is a great tool for math teachers. This website holds virtual manipulatives that can be used for whole class instruction or with struggling students. One example of the tools you can find on this website are the counters. These counters can be used as a visual for math operations as well as place value. A number line is also available on this website which can be beneficial to struggling students. These are just a few examples of the tools that you can find on the above website. Enjoy!
This is a great site for helping spark student creativity and imagination. Work can be saved and sent to family for viewing via email or by posting on a personal webpage. Families can also purchase a hardcopy of their child’s creation. The site is easy to use with a click and drag feature for story props, scenes, photos and text boxes. You can also edit the pictures/text of some previously published works by clicking the “personalize” button. For younger students who are unable to type or write text, a parent or volunteer can assist them by typing as they orally tell their stories. Teachers can use this as a whole class shared writing experience as well. Having access to an interactive whiteboard would be optimal so that all students can view and interact with creating the story.
http://www.edmodo.com/
http://english-zone.com/index.php
http://www.tagxedo.com/
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/free-puzzlemaker/?CFID=11576612&CFTOKEN=66733749
Edmodo is a class management and social networking site for teachers and students.
English-Zone provides practice activities for students. This site has free activities, as well as those teachers register for.
Tagxedo is a free website where students and teacher can create word clouds to demonstrate their knowledge on a subject
Discovery Education is a site that teachers normally have to register for, however this link provides free puzzle makers to all teachers.
__http://lrt.ednet.ns.ca/PD/BLM/table_of_contents.htm__
__http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/__
_https://www.dropbox.com/_http://www.squidoo.com/around-the-world-crafts-for-kids
__http://storybird.com/__
*This site is full of math blackline masters. For number tables, fraction strips, decimal squares, graph paper, etc.
*This website allows you to purchase materials (also free materials) for a reasonable cost to download and print to use in your classroom. It allows you to search by grade level and/or content.
*The teachers that I work with use this website to share files. It is FANTASTIC for keeping tabs on students or sharing lessons with ease.
_*This site features “Around the World” crafts for kids. My middle school students made catapults using rubberbands and popsicle sticks. I gave this site to my parents and told them that it would be great for planning some rainy day activities for their kiddo’s.
This website allows students to create and illustrate their own stories online. Stories can be published and printed as books.
Liter
http://www.classtools.net/fb/home/page
http://webklipper.com/
http://writecomics.com/
http://todaysmeet.com/
This is AWESOME! These are fake Facebook pages that are developed by teachers and students for historical figures, characters, plays, etc. You can create their friends list, make comments as their friends and from them, edit their profile info, etc. It seems to be mostly historical and literary based, but I can see how science teachers and math teachers could teach relationships between different things using this particular tool.
This site lets you easily, without requiring registration, annotate any webpage with virtual post-it notes or a highlighter. You’re then given the url address of the annotated webpage. It’s quite easy to use. Students can use it to demonstrate reading strategies (visualizing, asking questions, making a connection, etc.).
This site allows students to make their own comic strips- or storyboard digitally- which I have found to be a very helpful tool for comprehension. The site offers multiple backgrounds and characters to use- and requires no registration or additional information. Very cool tool :)
This site allows teachers to hold "chat-rooms" within a private setting for free! The teacher can set the expiration date for the chat room, invite members by url, and hashtag to twitter. It is super easy to use, requires no registration, and you have full control over the content. It is a cool tool to use during movies, podcasts, or other visual/auditory content to let students ask questions and have discussion about the content without being disruptive.
The Wolframaplha website is a search engine that also computes. It is an extremely useful one stop site for all content areas, not just math. For example, when searching for Denmark, the location of the novel Number the Stars I could find virtually every fact about Denmark I wanted to find, all in one quick search.
This website hosts Rubistar, a free rubric maker. I often use Rubistar to create quick and effective writing rubrics. While exploring Rubistar I realized it was sponsored by the larger site 4teachers.org. This site hosts several other teacher time savers. Besides rubrics, it also makes available a note taking tool: http://notestar.4teachers.org/. This site allows students to track sources they are using for research papers and lets teachers log on and collaborate along with students. This tool would allow teachers to see if the sites their students are using are valid and reliable and would teach good research skills.
This website is an amazing tool for free printables, lesson plans, and lesson ideas. I like to use the Every Day Edit, which will give a short paragraph with grammar errors for every day of the month. There are also good vocabulary handouts and writing prompts. There are free resources for every content area.
This website is a dictionary, but with a twist. It has video & word definitions. It would be especially helpful when trying to show students examples of how words are used and what they mean. Since new words can be abstract, this site would provide visual examples to see what a word means/is defined as. The only downside, not every word you want can be found here, but most common words for lower level students/elementary grades would be here.
This website is useful for showing students websites. It lets you paste a chunk of text and the URL of the page containing the text and get a link that opens directly to the website and highlights the selection you pasted. It would be extremely useful for demonstration purposes of when directing students to explore complicated websites with many links. I could see using it to share websites on a wiki or blog and this way my students would know what they are supposed to be looking at.